30 Watts of Marshall Tone in an Ultra-Versatile Combo Amp!

Your first strum played through your 30-watt Marshall MG30CFX Carbon Fiber guitar combo amplifier will have you hooked. This factory of tone features four programmable channels -- clean, crunch, OD1, OD2 -- plus onboard digital effects like chorus, phaser, flanger, vibe, octave, digital delay, and reverb; three-band EQ controls; a speaker-emulated line out; an MP3 line in; and a headphone out. All these features come in a compact combo that weighs only 23.8 pounds. This amp is great for recording sessions as well as rehearsals, and it's sure to give you a bunch of ways to shape your tone -- even without an extensive pedalboard.

Four Programmable Channels

Your MG30CFX Carbon Fiber combo amp features four channels of increasing gain settings. Your clean features a tone perfect for alluring strums and warm chords, and your crunch brings in a little bit of breakup that responds well to the nuanced aggressiveness of your playing. OD1 will really kick in some more distortion, and your OD2 channel pushes things even further. Each channel has the option of storing your personal settings via this baby's store button so you can instantly recall your presets without interruption.

Mad Effects

The effects on this baby really give you room to play around to get some interesting tones. Chorus, phaser, flanger, vibe, and octave effects will certainly be enough to get you started. The onboard reverb on your MG30CFX features spring or studio settings, and the digital delay hosts hi-fi, tape, multi, and reverse settings. You get the benefits of having a large pedal board of sounds to color your signal with just a few programmable switches right at your fingertips.

Simple Control Layout

Your Carbon Fiber combo amp's front panel holds all of your controls in a simple layout. Gain, bass, middle, treble, reverb, volume, FX, and master controls span from left to right in a simple and no-nonsense fashion, so you can make near-seamless tweaks whenever you need to. An MP3 input allows you to play house music though this baby for a DIY show, and a headphone jack allows you to practice by yourself without causing a ruckus.

Iconic Marshall Looks -- and Awesome Internal Design

Marshall's instantly recognizable visual style is all over this amp, and with Marshall's renowned tone and track record, you can always be sure that your signal is being forged via world-class circuitry and dependability. This baby also utilizes power amp damping in order to provide resonant low end and realistic tube-amp-like response that most solid-state amps don't succeed in replicating.

Innovation, Functionality, Tone - just a few words that help sum up the range of solid-state MG amplifiers from Marshall. Combining years of experience in analogue amplification with cutting-edge digital technology has resulted in the creation of an all-encompassing amplifier series, ideal for the beginner and gigging pro alike.

Specially voiced digital effects, intuitive footswitching technology and four adjustable and storable channels are just a few of the features found in the MG range. From a punchy 10 watt combo through to an effects laden, soul pounding 100 watt head, this series has it all.

Sound:
This about sums up the sound; it's a Marshall. I've heard sounds from Roland, Sunn, Fender, Peavey, Line 6, but Marshall has the best sounding amps out there, as they always have been. Don't let the fact there's only 30 watts of power in this thing fool you; paired with my Epiphone Les Paul, this has some of the best clean AND heavy tones I have ever played.
Feature:
This amp has six built-in effects; overdrive/distortion, reverb, chorus, flanger, phaser, and delay. I personally prefer regular effects pedals, but the onboard effects is a nice touch. The headphone jack is awesome, and I use it when I don't want to annoy anybody. But my favorite thing about this amp is the Marshall-ness of this thing. The fact it's a Marshall is the primary reason I bought it.
Ease of Use:
Using this amp is incredibly easy. All of the controls are marked easy to read, and adding 1+1 is harder than using this amp.
Quality:
This is quite possibly the sturdiest thing I own. And not just musical equipment wise; this thing is sturdier than the walls around my house.
Value:
This amp is perfectly priced, and could go for probably $150 more than it's marked for.
Manufacturer Support:
To quote another review I read, the best support is the kind you don't need. I have never needed it, and I don't think I will have to.
The Wow Factor:
I am going to be honest; I have the earlier model of this amp, the model with a gold front instead of silver and no carbon fiber. But with how much I love the older model, this newer model is more than likely off the charts.
Overall:
All I can say is this; Marshall has done it again. They have catered to the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Slash, Billy Gibbons, Dave Navarro, Angus Young, and now, me.

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Overall:
I bought my Marshall MG30CFX, 6 weeks ago, and It sounds Amazing! The 4 Channels have sufficient amount of Clarity & Gain in them! I call the 4 channels Clean, Crunch, Overdrive & Distortion. With the 6 Effects: Reverb (Studio & Spring), Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Delay (with the option of manually tapping the time between 2 repetitions) & Octave, you can get a Plethora of Tonal options! You can also save desired custom sounds in each channel. It can be changed anytime. It's build Solid, 30W of Power, (I Love to Crank it up & it is Loud! and Looks Beautiful with the Proud Marshall Logo and the New Silver & Black Color interface with the Carbon Fiber covering for the New MG Series. It has an Ear-phone input so you can play Loud without waking up the Neighborhood at midnights & an MP3 input so you can play along with Backing Tracks. Additional Foot-controller (I don't have it) will give you even more options. I'm a Guitarist who Loves & play Classical, Country, Pop, Latin, Jazz, Blues, Rock & Metal; and my Marshall helps me with an Awesome Tone! I play Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Eagles, Rush, Queen, Scorpions, Black Sabbath, Dire Straits, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Pantera, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jethro Tull, Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Randy Rhoads, Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, Yngwie Malmsteen, Chuck Berry, Simon & Garfunkel, Phil Keaggy, Buckethead & Richie Sambora among many more & My Marshall MG30CFX never lets me down. It's not a 100W Marshall Tube Halfstack, but I Love my little Amp a Lot! Thank you Marshall!

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